Pas de Quatre
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Subtitle: For Clarinet Quartet and Wind Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2019
Duration: c. 14:00
Difficulty: VI (quartet); V (ensemble) (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alarcon Music
Cost: Parts - Rental | Score Only - €46.15
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Pas de Quatre, literally “step of four”, is a French term used to identify ballet dance for four people.
The choice of the title, and its relationship with the ballet, denotes a particular interest of the composer for its choreographic nature, which is improved by treating the quartet of clarinets as a unique polyphonic instrument. This quality gives the soloists the possibility of unifying the gestures through the interpretation, giving the music a visual power that reinforces the concertante style of the work.
Pas de Quatre has been commissioned by Barcelona Clarinet Players.
- Program Note from Lone Star Wind Orchestra concert program, 24 March 2019
Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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- Unión Musical Santa Cecelia de Villar del Arzobispo (Spain) (Tim Reynish, conductor; Barcelona Clarinet Players) – 13 July 2019 - WASBE Conference (Buñol, Spain)
- Lone Star Wind Orchestra (Dallas, TX) (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor; Barcelona Clarinet Players) – 24 March 2019 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Angelita (2012/2014)
- Cello Concerto (2021)
- Charlie, the Chameleon (2013), from Bestiarium
- Concertango (2004)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- De Tiempo y Quimera (2005)
- Duende (2010)
- El Torico de la Cuerda (2002/2006)
- Enric Cullell (2014)
- Invocación (2017)
- La Dama Centinela (2009)
- La Lira de Pozuelo (2010)
- Marco Polo Trilogy
- Marco Polo: El Libro de la India (2013)
- Marco Polo: The Cathay Years (2010)
- Marco Polo: La Ruta de la Seda (2006)
- Memorias de un Hombre de Ciudad (2003)
- Pas de Quatre (2019)
- Pequeña Suite para Banda (2008)
- Preludio y Danza del Alba (2006)
- Second Symphony (2017)
- Spanish Dances (2021)
- Symphony for Wind Orchestra (2012)
- Three Sketches for Wind Ensemble (2014)
- Tim (2018)
- Tramonto (2007)
- The Unknown Friend (2021)
Resources
- Luis Serrano Alarcón website Accessed 23 March 2019
- "PAS DE QUATRE by Luis Serrano Alarcón (Spain)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 26 August 2019). Accessed 19 January 2023